Simple Coin Pendant

Introduction: Simple Coin Pendant

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This is a pretty easy instructable about how you can make a coin pendant out of just about any non-aluminum coin. Brass or bronze coins work best.

hey, i saw a coin necklace similar to this on your blog, i think it was travellers necklece. i was wondering how you get the background f the coins black. you didn't paint them did u. please tell me, they look pritty cool.

Depending on the metal you can soak them in bleach and sand the raised edges with a very fine sandpaper, or paint them with little bit of cooking oil and heat them gently with a torch or over a stove burner, if you watch closely the colors will progress from golden brown to black, then if you coat them with a very fine sheen of furniture wax you can get the color to hold.

I just heat them with a torch until they start to glow a little, then I let them cool slowly in the air. The metal is black when they cool. To bring the design forward, i use fine wet dry sandpaper and polish off the black oxide on the highest parts of the design - making the coin look aged and worn.

Hej! Really like how this one shows it is possible to not be overly handy and still make something nice for someone. And you definately found an easier way to work with these materials than many may think there is. My only less complimentary words concern the title of your instructable containing the word 'easy'. Sure enough it's an easy process, but i might (and as i've heard, has) mislead some people looking for even less complex tools and materials for this kind of jewelry.

Thanks!! I'm glad you like my project!I think your point about the title is a very good one. 'Easy' is altogether too relative of a term... The process is 'simple', but not necessarily 'easy' for everyone.

Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.end of source

Notice the word 'fraudulent' Making necklaces is not fraudulent activity. Their is a lot of bad info online about this subject, and it is hotly debated. The actual law, though, speaks for itself. Making necklaces from U.S coins is perfectly legal as long as you do not try to spend the coins.